NATCA wants FAA held to its own standards for ATC staffing

The National Air Traffic Controllers Assn. is "deeply dissatisfied" with the outcome of the US National Transportation Safety Board's investigation into the Aug. 27, 2006, crash of a Comair CRJ200 in Lexington, Ky., (ATWOnline, July 27), saying FAA was not sufficiently criticized or blamed for failing to schedule two controllers the morning of the flight.
A single controller was on duty at the time of the accident and had turned away from the window to handle paperwork when the CRJ taxied ...